The determination of the safe working life of polymer materials is important for their
successful use in engineering, medicine and consumer-goods applications. An …

Elastomers play an irreplaceable role in our society due to their unique properties. Natural
rubber is directly obtained from plants and is widely used in tires, shoes, etc. Recently …

A depolymerizable vitrimer that allows both reprocessability and monomer recovery by a
simple and scalable one‐pot two‐step synthesis of vitrimers from cyclic lactones is reported …

The need for polymers for high-end applications, coupled with the desire to mimic nature's
macromolecular machinery fuels the development of innovative synthetic strategies every …

The remarkable elasticity and tensile strength found in natural elastomers are challenging to
mimic. Synthetic elastomers typically feature covalently cross‐linked networks (rubbers), but …

Block polymers (BPs) derived from biomass (biobased) are necessary components of a
sustainable future that relies minimally on petroleum-based plastics for applications ranging …

Polyurethanes (PU) are ranked amongst the 6 th most manufactured worldwide polymers
and are widely used in a variety of applications due to the diversity of properties they offer …

Abundant, inexpensive, renewable, and nontoxic carbon dioxide (CO2) has become an
attractive feedstock for chemical and polymer syntheses. The use of CO2 as a sustainable …

Partial crystalline polysiloxane-based polyurethane copolymers were prepared by using
hydroxyethoxypropyl capped polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) as soft segment and α, ω-(bis …

A series of waterborne polyurethane dispersions (WPUs) modified with hydroxyl-terminated
polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) were prepared by incorporating PDMS into the soft segments …